Santa Tags

So you have finished dying your bottle brush trees and there is still dye left in the bowl. 




I am not one to waste anything so I always have cloth or shipping tags at hand to soak up the rest of the dye.

I buy the tags by the thousand.

Pre-strung.

I leave the strings on when dying, but may replace them with ribbon later. 

I put a handful into the dye making sure they do not stick together.

Stir.

Using a metal spoon or paint stick crease the tags for a more distressed look.

I place them outside on screens to dry.

Watch out for the drips if you choose to dry inside.

The dye is permanent on most surfaces.

It takes several hours for them to dry.

This is Apple Green Rit Dye.

 Aqua Blue.

Petal Pink.

I used Old World Santa images to make the tags.

Mod Podge the images to the tags.

Added a layer of Mod Podge over the entire tag.

Painted a gold edge.

Left the back plain for Christmas messages of cheer.





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Quickies

Are you ready?

Ready for red?

And green? 

And white?

And naturals?




All the colors of Christmas?

This little fellow is ready to show you how quick a quickie can be.

Take two decrepit kindergarten chairs.

Add Rust-Oleum in red.

Take one green lift top bench.

Add leftover Rust-Oleum red paint.

A perfect trio. 

To put under your tree-o! 

More Christmas popping up soon.




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Old World Santa Tags

Shipping tags are soaked in coffee.

Laid out on screens to get a quick spritz of walnut ink.

Left to dry outside.

The backs are painted with green craft paint. 










 

I printed out a gazillion Old World Santa images from The Graphics Fairy.

I cut them all out while watching movies.

Mod Podged them on the front of the tags.

Stamped Christmas images on both the front and back.

Now the Old World Santa tags are ready to be used in various projects and for gift tags.


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Friday Finds

Between a wedding, a court hearing for a friend, a party, and other life events, I managed to squeeze in two hours of estate sales, garage sales and thrift shops last weekend.

A must have - an old wicker plant stand with the galvanized planter box intact.

Old yardsticks and yard tools.

Including five toddler-sized hoes.

An over-sized star colander.

A gnome-sized red stool.

Another week, another quilt.

Crib-sized.

Some blocks are 60's and some are older.

Reading books and dog stories - again.

A cricket box - I was looking for a third.

A token from Leadville, Colorado.

A tiny trophy.

A whole stack of work aprons - most beautifully worn and tattered and torn.

I'm working on them.

Goodwill was having a basket sale so I bought a dozen or so.

A clever wall hanging of a hamburger made of wood and canvas (the seeds in the bun are tiny nails).

All on a piece of corrugated tin.

A plush Santa checking his naughty or nice children in his vintage J Chen file box.

In the back of a closet at the estate sale were these two vests - adult-sized.

Handmade - the white one in a heavy cotton and the blue one in felted wool.

Look at the crochet around the edges and the delicate embroidery down the button plackets.

The blue vest has an initial on the back.

I could not leave these two behind - I was afraid someone would toss them.

Right before running (really, I was running!) to get dressed for the wedding, I found this fraternal twin of the Nighty-Night Stand from yesterday's post HERE.

I had to buy him.

I have a post showing his new look coming soon.

I am not sure if I will be hunting this weekend.

We have a green lagoon in the middle of the backyard jungle.

I am hoping for rain.


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Chenille Santas

Chenille Santas!

They have style.

They have class.

They have attitude.










I had my own sheet of beheaded Santas, but the file is lost deep in the bowels of my computer.

Luckily for me, Karen at The Graphics Fairy had a sheet of both small and large heads of Old World Santas.

I only needed the small ones, but I have another Christmas craft to use the large ones.

Crafting chenille stem figures has been around for decades. 

If you want specific directions, you can go to my Halloween figures here.

Headless!

I make them in several color combinations.

Mainly because I love to play with chenille stems!

There are greenery stems available during this time of year - I made tiny wreaths for them.

I used silver for the loop at the top. 

Where the stem is bent, it forms a tiny silver belt buckle.

Some Santas hold silver jingle bells.

Bending the arms and legs creates a unique expression for each.

This one is saying, "You are not taking this wreath from me!"

Must have been a Black Friday kind of thing.

Some carry little silver scepters - see over to the right?

Santa is jumping with joy - he is one of the lucky ones who get to carry the tiny bottle brush trees.

Folks, it is Sunday - of course there are bottle brush trees!

Group photo - necessary at all holiday events.

How many did I make?

I lost count after 100.

Chucks caught me talking to them.

He said there was something seriously wrong with me.

Hey, THEY listen!



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